The City (2) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FAFA AGAG HIHI JKJK ALAL EMEM HNHN FOFO PHPH EQEQ AHAHCanst thou not rest O city | A |
That liest so wide and fair | B |
Shall never an hour bring pity | A |
Nor end be found for care | B |
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Thy walls are high in heaven | C |
Thy streets are gay and wide | D |
Beneath thy towers at even | E |
The dreamy waters glide | D |
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Thou art fair as the hills at morning | F |
And the sunshine loveth thee | A |
But its light is a gloom of warning | F |
On a soul no longer free | A |
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The curses of gold are about thee | A |
And thy sorrow deepeneth still | G |
One madness within and without thee | A |
One battle blind and shrill | G |
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I see the crowds for ever | H |
Go by with hurrying feet | I |
Through doors that darken never | H |
I hear the engines beat | I |
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Through days and nights that follow | J |
The hidden mill wheel strains | K |
In the midnight's windy hollow | J |
I hear the roar of trains | K |
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And still the day fulfilleth | A |
And still the night goes round | L |
And the guest hall boometh and shrilleth | A |
With the dance's mocking sound | L |
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In chambers of gold elysian | E |
The cymbals clash and clang | M |
But the days are gone like a vision | E |
When the people wrought and sang | M |
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And toil hath fear for neighbour | H |
Where singing lips are dumb | N |
And life is one long labour | H |
Till death or freedom come | N |
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Ah the crowds that for ever are flowing | F |
They neither laugh nor weep | O |
I see them coming and going | F |
Like things that move in sleep | O |
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Grey sires and burdened brothers | P |
The old the young the fair | H |
Wan cheeks of pallid mothers | P |
And the girls with golden hair | H |
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Care sits in many a fashion | E |
Grown grey on many a head | Q |
And lips are turned to ashen | E |
Whose years have right to red | Q |
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Canst thou not rest O city | A |
That liest so wide so fair | H |
Shalt never an hour bring pity | A |
Nor end be found for care | H |
Archibald Lampman
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